Publisher/蒼穹舎

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February / Wintertale is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Yuji Obata. Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1962, Yuji Obata graduated from the Department of Photography at Nihon University College of Art in 1985. After working at a publishing company, he became an assistant to an architectural photographer and studied photography. He then went freelance and worked on commercial projects while also working on his own creative endeavors. In 1987, he won the Taiyo Prize for a work he shot in Shanghai. He has since published a photo collection of the Portuguese paradise of Madeira Island, as well as several other co-authored collections, but this is Obata's representative work and won the Special Prize at the 24th Higashikawa Award. The story is set in Hokkaido in winter, which Obata became interested in after a casual conversation with a friend. A rink is built in the schoolyard, and a group of boys silently skating outdoors, beautiful horses running through the snowy landscape, and crystals with no two patterns the same. This is a beautiful and sentimental photo collection that carefully weaves together the nature, climate, and culture created by the local people, even in the harsh cold.